Not to be bound by rules, but to be creating one's own rules-this is the kind of life which Zen is trying to have us live.

The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's humdrum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one of art, full of genuine inner creativity.

To live - is that not enough?

The intuitive recognition of the instant, thus reality is the highest act of wisdom.

Implicity, there should be something mysterious in every day.

Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities.

The fighter is to be always single-minded with one object in view: to fight, looking neither backward nor sidewise. To go straight forward in order to crush the enemy is all that is necessary for him.